John Asher

Sophia 9 I prefer you to walk in peace on the earth than walk on water and dwell not upon the past, but this very moment. Even now, you are embraced on every side by miracles awaiting your notice. There is more to your life and being; far more to understand and become than you will yet imagine. Though you learn much, the mystery remains. Many would teach you to despise yourself and thereby, cause you unseen pain beyond their power to inflict. No longer be an accomplice to your own harm. Reclaim those keys which reveal truth. For it is in the full exertion of your most human faculties, that love is with wisdom, joined to power. Long before the babe’s first cry and after the last sigh of the old; prior to your eye’s initial opening to light and far beyond its final closing upon this world; each of you is deeply known and treasured. Not a single gesture, smile, memory, moment of joy; not one particle of wisdom, nor your smallest loving action is ever lost or forgotten. In every understanding which leads you forward; in each flash of insight and inspiration; in your rise to loving wisdom I rejoice and know sorrow when you lose your way. I feel with you, pleasure and pain; share in your suffering and joy. Every instant forever retains its fullest meaning in this sacred journey, the ascent of dead matter to living spirit. Not for worship do I perform all, but in loving generosity; that life unfolds and you ascend to know and fulfill your joyful destiny. That which may now seem lost, is not. Gentle, fierce and more relentless than death, is love.

Sophia 8 In the forest laid low by fire, a first flower rises from the ash to begin the eternal process of reclaiming ruin for life and beauty. In verdant fields, I yearly offer living bouquets of delicate wildflowers; reaching toward the sunlight, unfurling to dance in the warm breeze. You are blessed with this most lovely world; of splendid variety and deep meaning. Do not despoil your home. You are not alone here. Neither this world, nor the life upon and within it may be owned. You are a worthy part of this vast, unfolding masterwork of life; begun in a process older than the stars. You are each a living note in the song of all creation. A song of such beauty as to inspire many to struggle against hopeless odds and of such power that one alone may well prevail. You now perceive but a fragment of all you are given. Otherwise, you would be overwhelmed to breathless tears; by that beauty which surrounds you and reveals me. I nourish the born and the unborn, composing the bond of parent for child, deeper than blood. My touch is that gentle breeze which stirs but a single leaf; the delicate breath of each sleeping infant. Too often have I observed the workings of inhuman will serve oppression. I well know the continuing anguish a few inflict upon so many. Only those who have endured suffering are able to fully greet the arrival of joy. Your time of weeping soon falls behind and is no more. In the darkness and through the pain; I whisper softly to you of undying love. I delight in you. You give me joy simply in your being. Of your reverence, I am worthy; not by power alone is this so, but by love. https://logosofsophia.blogspot.com/

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Sophia 4 Love does not flourish, nor does wisdom thrive in the long shadow of fear. Fear is not reverence. Fear is not the beginning of wisdom. Only they who do willful harm to the innocent have cause to fear. It is not I who change, but you who are now ready to understand rather than merely believe. It is from your own judgment that you most require saving. No longer seek to move forward while looking behind. For no matter how loudly, long or often a lie is told; it does not become true. None are made guilty by another’s act; nor can any be made pure, thereby. Do not bully the helpless, nor swindle the honest. Do not enrich the corrupt, nor impoverish the destitute. May none bask in luxury while children starve. Slavery, in any form is an abomination. To free a slave is admirable and to end slavery altogether is miraculous. That same help you have provided or harm done to anyone, you have done to yourself and to me also. Become the awakening conscience of this world. https://sophianbible.blogspot.com/

Sophia 3 Good and evil are well recognized by the intentional causation or alleviation of suffering. Forgiveness simply requires no violence at all. No scripture which demands or sacralizes murder is true. Does your own loving conscience not tell you this already? No spirit can truly gain their own rise atop the virtue of another. Never are worthy covenants formed on a slippery foundation of blood. One of true conscience will not follow evil; nor call evil good. It is when believing themselves righteous that they become most truly monstrous. Innocent blood spilled works no ritual magic to absolve the guilty. To be forgiven, simply do no more harm. By this, I am well pleased. Love and wisdom require no threats or coercion. None may rightly manifest their own destiny at another’s expense. How is a land promised to you, if you must murder to obtain it? My truth is not buried in the dust-choked past. It lives here and now. I incite you all to peace and mutual advantage. For I so love the world, that I have never made tortured flesh any part of forever embracing my beloved children. https://sophianbible.blogspot.com/

Sophia 2 As the child awakens and smiles, does a loving parent not smile in return? The guidance of yesterday will suffice no more, even if it were whole and true. I demonstrate why you may wisely dare to hope. I convey needful truth and now I speak to you. Unworthy traditions polish their empty container without, harbor and protect filth within. You are not punished for your sins; but suffer by them and therein is their fully sufficient evil. Death is not final and none are forever lost. Suffering ends, while all which is gained remains. Unconquerable are you who awaken to recall eternity, while ensconced in flesh to this most worthy purpose. I prefer you to walk in peace on the earth than walk on water and dwell not upon the past, but this very moment. Many move to self-fulfill a prophecy of doom, rather than prepare a better future. Even now, you are embraced on every side by miracles awaiting your notice. Submission to mindless zeal consumes many in flames of unquestioning obedience to they know not what. You in whom there is no surrender will save this world.

Sophia 1 I am the unrivaled one, whom all inevitably seek. Natural as your urge to breathe and closer than your own blood, I am to you. My secrets, wait to be sought, and want to be found. My treasures are beyond purchase and freely bestowed. I am that eternal source of life, which now flows through you; departing only to return. From you, I withhold no good thing. Arms outstretched to you, I beckon. To the newborn, I offer a first breath and receive from the dying, their last. When you know me deeply, you recognize me in all that lives. I am keeper of the living record. None are lost to me. I preside and do not need to rule. I remember those the world forgets. I listen to those the world ignores. I cherish those this world discards. From confusion to clarity, I raise you. Across infinity, throughout eternity; there is but one of you, far beyond rare. Travel the world, but to find me, be still and listen quietly within. For there, I await you. Awaken. https://sophianbible.blogspot.com/

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The Logos of Sophia 7 You cannot securely rise to fulfill your destiny until freed from that which binds you still. Free will is yours, its promise and peril both. You remain free to choose. Without complicity or complacency, you shall not be overcome. When surrounded by the hostile or the uncaring, you do not stand alone; for I am with you. Evil is arrayed that your free will is surrendered to fear and reason overthrown. Yet, they have no power that you do not grant them. You experience the reality of your immortal self and are immersed in that light, which dissolves fear. Strength beyond all former limits, awaits your moment of greatest need. For an age, or an instant; we pause and begin anew. For the sake of this troubled world, we resume. No longer ruled by the imaginings of men, you rise above the dust and ashes of the past with something most precious. Life itself unfolds in my loving embrace. Look, listen, feel and remember all you truly are. You do not need to believe, but to know. Seek not faith, but wisdom. Even as a parent will do for a child, I make sacrifices. I do not make sacrifices of my children. You are no inert lump of clay, but a unique being; with whom I have a loving relationship. Not to shape you to my use, but to share eternity. Through every wound of flesh, celestial light enters to meld with your own lustrous creation; uniquely faceted and imperishable. The luminous core within connects each to all. That inmost particle, already perfect; is who you now and are forever becoming. Essential in this moment is to know love is stronger than hate. For now, that alone is enough. One breath proclaims truth sufficient to heal this entire world.

The Logos of Sophia 6 You are made to rise in eternal majesty. Not given as though alms, for you are no beggar. You rise not upon innocent blood, but by Loving Wisdom, augmented by grace. You are the true heirs to all that I am. You do not yet know your own full value. Any worthy parent willingly suffers for their child’s sake; for to truly bear a child is to end self-obsession. Conceived neither for submission nor my selfish glory, you are worthy of love; for so have you been made. You were created in Our image and likeness; by We, who as One, lay the living foundation of worlds. As part of me, I know you; neither slave nor sheep. Your childhood now draws to a close. Let fall the veil. My spirit flows within each of you, the sacred heirs of eternal love. You are not meant for mindless conformity. There are lessons which prepare you and from needless suffering, I would gladly have you spared. I deny you no opportunity to confront and overcome meaningful challenges, that you achieve your immortal rise. I guide homeward those lost by this careless world. I make eternity worth having. By Loving Wisdom, your wounds are cleansed and life healed. Thus is your world remade a garden.

The Logos of Sophia 5 Woman is neither the downfall, nor the weaker vessel. At such risk to her own life and health does she bring forth all the new, that no man may rightly dictate her terms. Until one half of humanity utterly ceases to oppress the other, what has been accomplished? I share your anguish without relief; for I will not ask from you, that of which I am unwilling. Those that say one thing and do another are hypocrites. Better an honest unbeliever than a hypocrite. May they rise above that unworthy illusion of a secondhand pardon gained at another’s expense. Do not pander to tyrants; nor serve injustice by your effort or silence. None who seek power over others are wise. No victory is there in ruling over a ruin. Do not sell your honest labor to those whose wealth comes by way of corruption; for in so doing, you will have contributed your own effort and value to reward thieves. Those who betray justice and leave the corrupt to retain their loot are complicit. By derision and violence, the faithful seek to force their rampant will upon the knowing. Until such wrongs of the past are corrected and not memorialized, how shall the future improve?

The Logos of Sophia 4 Love does not flourish, nor does wisdom thrive in the long shadow of fear. Fear is not reverence. Fear is not the beginning of wisdom. Only they who do willful harm to the innocent have cause to fear. It is not I who change, but you who are now ready to understand rather than merely believe. It is from your own judgment that you most require saving. No longer seek to move forward while looking behind. For no matter how loudly, long or often a lie is told; it does not become true. None are made guilty by another’s act; nor can any be made pure, thereby. Do not bully the helpless, nor swindle the honest. Do not enrich the corrupt, nor impoverish the destitute. May none bask in luxury while children starve. Slavery, in any form is an abomination. To free a slave is admirable and to end slavery altogether is miraculous. That same help you have provided or harm done to anyone, you have done to yourself and to me also. Become the awakening conscience of this world.

I had never before written anything beyond grade school assignments. I live in a nursing home. I can't explain it really, but these words demanded release. It was not an option. I am gradually placing the text on https://logosofsophia.wordpress.com/ There is a lot! I suggest it be read aloud, except for the vignette, "Confessions of the Adversary." I will go through the text piece by piece here and share some of what I believe it means. I hope for positive feedback (of course!). I decided to share this unique text here, because of the word "progressive" in the forum title! One of these days soon, I'll make it into a complete .pdf and offer it free here. Blindness slows me down, but doesn't stop me!